From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates

The aim of this study is to compare verbal periphrases (VPs) between three Romance languages (Spanish, Catalan and Romanian) and establish the degree of grammaticalization of these linguistic elements in each language. From the analysis of the data, we can assert that the degree of grammaticalization shown by the auxiliaries of a periphrastic complex in Catalan and Spanish is higher than that shown in Romanian. To measure the degree of grammaticalization of auxiliaries, we applied seven syntacti